Terraform at Scale: How We Manage 500+ Resources Across 8 AWS Accounts Without Losing Our Minds

<p><em>November 2026 | ~18 min read</em></p> <h2> The <code>terraform destroy</code> That Took Down Staging </h2> <p>It was 3:47 PM on a Thursday. An engineer ran <code>terraform destroy</code> to clean up a sandbox VPC. Except they were in the wrong Terraform workspace. Staging was gone — 47 resources deleted in 90 seconds. The RDS instance. The EKS cluster. The VPN connections. All of it.</p> <p

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